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There are some hackintosh issues that I could not fix so far. I wish I could fix them later. Right now I don’t have enough time to play with it.

Ok, here are:

1. Quartz Extreme doesn’t work with my 7950 card, not a big deal.
2. Paralels can’t work, I wish I could run windows as virtual machine, I don’t want bootcamp. Single boot is good, my hackintosh run 24/7, I write codes in osx daily, but I have some seo tools run under windows only.
3. Timemachine can’t work, it would be perfect if I have hourly backup with timemachine for data archiving and superduper run everynight for fast data recovery

If you have some directions, please drop me a message here. Thanks!

I couldn’t get to boot leopard dvd with boot132. It keep restarting before darwin loadee. I want to have vanila kernel working for  easy future update.

I end up using this file. Just burn it. After darwin loaded swap the disk with retail leopard dvd.

grub-dfe.iso

I manage to get my wireless usb linksys WUSB54GC work very well with leopard osx. Hey .. this is hackintosh, if you have real mac, you won’t need this unless the wifi module is broken .

Ok, it is quite simple installation.

Get the file here. wusb54gc osx leopard driver

1) Install the kext file using kexthelper. Restart leopard. 

2) Copy the two app files in Application folder

3) Run USBWirelessUtility, you can plug the wifi usb. As soon as leopard detect it, USBWirelessUtility will search available access points.

You may need to run USBWirelessUtility each time you start leopard. You can also put it in the dock and make it Open at Login.

I have an old macmini with core duo processor and 2GB ram running tiger. The performance is quite good for daily task and media player. However this is a 3 years old machine. It always good to have a new more powerful mac.

I wish I could buy new iMac, but I think it is better to build a hackintosh pc. Ok, here is my spec.

Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-945GCM-S2L (with intel 945 onboard video)
2GB RAM
1×250GB Harddisk (for osx entirely)
2×80 GB Harddisk (I wish I could make it as RAID)

OSX86 distro is iDeneb 1.3. I know there is a new one. But I already have the disk since a year ago.

Here is what you need to select when running iDeneb:

- ICHx Fix, this motherboard has ICH7
- intel 945 video, it will give you 1024×768, we need to fix it later 

For application, select:

- Kext helper, we need this to install kext file for audio driver (Realtek ALC662 codec) 
- OSX86 tool, we need this to enable QuartzGL

After iDeneb installation finish, you should now have running OSX. Then the next step is doing post installation. 

1) install kext for audio, use kext helper
2) apply GMA945 patch to show all available resolutions. I manage to get my syncmaster lcd to work native at 1440×900 after applying the patch
3) run osx86 tool, try to enable QuartzGL

Here is the kext and patch files.

Enjoy some screenshots: